Capcom's New Original Game, Pragmata, Just Did Something Very Impressive

In a gaming landscape that feels like it’s dominated by sequels, remakes, and remasters, Capcom’s new original game, Pragmata, launched recently and got off to a very good start. Capcom said in a news release that the game sold more than 1 million units over its first 48 hours following its release on April 17….

Elden Ring movie cast: Who’s playing who in Alex Garland’s live-action movie?

A24 and Alex Garland’s live-action adaptation of Elden Ring finally has a release date and a confirmed cast. But the recent announcement that actors Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw, Cailee Spaeny, and Nick Offerman are starring in the adaptation of FromSoftware’s hit video game leaves fans with a big question: Who are they playing? Garland’s film…

The Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag Remake Will Be Revealed This Week

Ubisoft has announced a special livestream airing this week that will reveal the long-rumored remake of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Fans will get their first look at the rechristened Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced on Thursday, April 23. The presentation will air on YouTube at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET. Black Flag Resynced has…

Starfield Was The Best-Selling Game In The U.S. The Week Of Its PS5 Launch

2023 Bethesda adventure Starfield finally made it to PlayStation 5 last week, alongside a couple of major content updates across all platforms. This combo propelled it to the top of Circana’s ranking of best-selling titles in the U.S. for its launch week, a spot it hasn’t sat in since its initial release. Not that the…

Indie Pass adds cozy new Stardew Valley style game The Abbess Garden

There’s something about the forbidden that always tempts us. The knowledge of doing something that’s against the rules, the thrill of potential discovery, and the subsequent fear of getting caught. The Abbess Garden, a cozy Stardew-esque life game set in 1600s France, deals with that cocktail of emotions. As you tend to your mysterious sanctuary…

A Surprise Nintendo Pop-Up Store Has Arrived In London

Image: Jim Norman / Nintendo Life After years of feeling left out, it feels like London is being treated to a bit of Nintendo store recognition, of late. First, we had the Westfield pop-up at the end of last year, and now there’s another surprise store in town, taking up floor space in an Argos,…

2026’s Best PS5 Console Exclusive RPG Getting a Free Update

One of PS5‘s biggest console exclusives is getting a free update that will add new challenges, items, and more. What game is getting a free update? Team Ninja’s recently released Nioh 3, which came out in February, is already getting a big update, and all for free. On Team Ninja’s blog, the company thanked fans for their…

Full path tracing might not be such a GPU hog in future, as Nvidia claims over 2x performance improvements in new research

Ray tracing is one of those technologies that’s mighty impressive but also seems to take a mighty amount of time to get right. We saw the first proper go at it with the RTX 20-series, and we’re now three generations on and still relying on workarounds to achieve global illumination. One technique to help make…

The Elden Ring Movie Has A Release Date And Cast, Which Includes Dark Souls II’s Peter Serafinowicz

Back in May of last year, From Software, A24, and Bandai Namco announced its intentions for an Elden Ring movie which would be written and directed by Alex Garland. Garland is known for films like Ex Machina and most recently Civil War, but he is no stranger to the video game world having written Enslaved:…

Forza Horizon 6’s Xbox Controller Is A Hideous Neon Mess And I Love It

Some official video game-themed controllers look amazing. Some look ugly and boring. And then, every once in a while, you get something so garish and neon, like Xbox’s newly revealed Forza Horizon 6 gamepad, that it’s almost hard to look at it. And you know what? I want this damn Forza controller so bad. On…